Bug#731463: Bug#718434: ca-certificates: should CAcert.org be included?

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Sat Dec 7 00:21:52 UTC 2013


On 12/06/2013 07:13 PM, Michael Shuler wrote:
> #2 - All CAs included in ca-certificates are available to have the trust
> turned off.  If you have a concern about a particular CA and do not
> trust them, disable that CA.

can we ship CAs marked as "disabled" by default?  my impression is that
every CA shipped in ca-certificates right now is enabled automatically
unless the user has debconf's priority set to be more verbose than the
default.

> I'll keep thinking about it.  If the Debian NSS maintainer has a strong
> opinion to remove CAcert's roots, then the same will happen in
> ca-certificates, in order to maintain the same CA set.

The other way to maintain the same CA set is for Someone™ to fix #704180

	--dkg

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